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...Yorker who wants to fly to San Francisco. You're interested in traveling on a Friday and returning the following Wednesday. When you start checking ticket prices, you notice the Friday evening flights and the Wednesday afternoon flights are going for about twice the price of flights at less desirable times of day. What do you do: Take the flights that best fit your plans, no matter what the cost? Or fly at less convenient times to save some money...
...wheezing accordion on the oom-pahs), and a chorus starts to sing the words painted on the curtain, which flies open to reveal a dozen dancers in Spanish costumes prancing merrily in front of a backdrop that is an explosion of magenta and yellow. Hold on to your ticket stub: Mark Morris' joyous dance version of Four Saints in Three Acts, the surrealist opera by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, is off and galloping...
...that would be left is hard money, where the GOP still holds a big advantage. Some Democrats approached McConnell quietly, he told TIME, with private pleas to "stop this from happening" and "pull some rabbit out of the hat one more time." Wellstone's amendment was the ticket. "I viewed it as another unconstitutional ornament we could put on this tree," McConnell says. "I was trying to get as many problems into the bill I could, so that if we ended up in court, we had a target-rich environment." He went to colleagues and said, "This is grotesquely unconstitutional...
...hosts of the new reality show now or never run through the streets of German cities with camera crews, stopping people at random to ask if they would like a free plane ticket to an exotic destination like Bali. The catch is the plane is leaving in two hours, they have to go alone and they must race an unknown number of other contestants to get to the airport ticket counter first. The audience competes for a second free ticket by downloading street maps and other information from the Web to become the first to figure out which contestant will...
...confessed business geek who claims to care more about entrepreneurial process than profits. Nor is he a techie, despite his new media credentials: "The computer and the Internet are just tools that allowed me to take part in a world I wanted to be in." They were also his ticket to the 2001 World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow. Meeting people like billionaire George Soros and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus "was inspirational," he says. "I was hanging on every word...